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blissy
It's heaven....


:eek:
piginapoke
I was rather hoping to be pos repped for it :smile:


Well, 2 gems in a short space of time, you're definitely travelling along the right path at the mo. :wink:
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blissy
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piginapoke
Well I did know, but I got a bit confused. I'm surrounding by enough books to last me a lifetime without getting dictionaries involved!

Trying to make me jealous of your uni? :wink:


LOL of course not. The UL is the second biggest library in the UK though. Perhaps I'm trying to make you jealous of our library. And the fact I can go in with my bippy barcode card and sit in amongst the books and clever people and feel totally out of place.... LOL.
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blissy
Once you start, you become a dictionary freak like me. Then you move onto foreign dictionaries (I found myself looking at a coptic/greek dictionary the other day) and then onto thesauri. Thank goodness the UL has a room FULL of dictionaries. It's heaven....


Jeez, I know what you mean, I haven't used my 'Pocket Fowler's Modern English Use' yet, despite having it months. I don't seem to put Roget's down when writing an essay though.
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blissy
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jammyd
Jeez, I know what you mean, I haven't used my 'Pocket Fowler's Modern English Use' yet, despite having it months. I don't seem to put Roget's down when writing an essay though.


ROget and OED are my best essay-writing friends. My French and Latin dictionaries are ever so fun - but a distraction unless I'm doing my French work...
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blissy
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I had to get a "rare book" once and it had to sit on a padded book cradle and everyfink...
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blissy
I had to get a "rare book" once and it had to sit on a padded book cradle and everyfink...


what was it?
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blissy
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Baron
what was it?


I think it was a first edition Jane Eyre.

You have to "order" and collect SO many books though because they have so many. You have to fill in a card and wait 1/2 an hour whilst someone goes into the bowels of the library and finds it!
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Baron
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look at the time, its way past my bedtime :eek: nite
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blissy
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piginapoke
What's wrong with getting a new copy?



The sheer pleasure...
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blissy
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piginapoke
You have very odd tastes in my opinion! :biggrin:


I was enthusiastic. I wanted to see a "real" thing on my first trip. As far as I can tell, most freshers don't even go into the UL.

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